Bad week of local child abuse cases

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested five south King County residents Wednesday morning on federal charges of conspiring to enslave a 16-year-old Afghan immigrant girl. P-I reporter Paul Shukovsky has the story.

Earlier this week, P-I reporter Scott Gutierrez covered what King County sheriff’s investigators say is the worst case of child abuse they’ve have ever seen.

Then we learned the father told police he was unaware that his daughter was being locked up for extended periods.

But the father did acknowledge to police that his 14-year-old girl had been disciplined for “taking things” and that she and her stepmother, Rebecca A. Long, were “having issues.”